E. Cudworth

Gebundenes Buch

Social Lives with Other Animals

Tales of Sex, Death and Love

Beschreibung

A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of species in terms of complex systemic relations of domination, looking at ways Other animals are constitutive of human social lives at the dinner table, as livestock and as companions in our homes.

Autor

ERIKA CUDWORTH Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Sociology at the University of East London, UK. She is author of Environment and Society, Developing Ecofeminist Theory: The Complexity of Difference and co-author of The Modern State: Theories and Ideologies and Posthuman International Relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-24151-0
• 2011 edition
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 146mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780230241510
• ISBN-10: 0230241514
• Artikelnr.: 33143564

Rezensionen

'This is a fascinating exploration of how relations between human and other animals are structured by power and the extreme consequences of human domination for non-human animals, particularly those which are domesticated and farmed as potential foodstuffs. The author insists on the importance of a sociological analysis of human-other animal relations, engaging both theoretically and empirically with an impressive array of evidence... The book makes an invaluable contribution to understanding and changing the way humans and other animals live together on this small planet.' - Nickie Charles, Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick, UK

"Overall, Social Lives with Other Animals makes a very useful contribution to the field because, first, its subject-matter other animals has largely been ignored theoretically and empirically until now. Cudworth is correct in her claim that sociology (and she could add the social sciences generally) have been resolutely human exclusive. Second, it reviews the existing theoretical literature from wide-ranging disciplines under one roof." - Sociology